Is there a system property that allows us to create spaces with custom permissions by default? As far as I have checked out Jive7, all new spaces created inherit permissions from parent space. We wish to avoid this because new spaces shouldn`t be visible to (public) space above.

Hi Lukas - we ran in the same issue. I would be keen to hear of any workarounds, as we miss the functionality in 5 that let us create a space with no permissions, and then when ready to launch, established the permissions we needed.

That's exactly what we are struggling with. In 6, permissions (customized or inherited) are part of the "create a space" dialogue, but in 7 you need to create the group first. Once created, you can edit space permissions. Unfortunately, in our case this would be too late.